At least 12 people have been shot dead by gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms in a pre-dawn attack in a village south-west of Baghdad, officials say, BBC reported.
Police spokesman Gen Qassim Moussawi said officers suspected the attack in Zauba was the result a tribal dispute.
Among the dead were a senior figure in the Iraqi Islamic Party and members of a local Awakening Council - a Sunni militia co-operating with the state.
The area around Zauba was once a hotbed of the Sunni insurgency in the country.
The violence triggered by the US-led invasion in 2003 has diminished over the past 18 months, but shootings and bombings are common.
A resident of Zauba blamed al-Qaeda in Iraq for Monday's attack.
Mohammed al-Zubaie told AFP news agency that the gunmen had shot dead Attala Ouda al-Shukir, an Awakening Council leader, as well as three of his sons and four cousins.
Gunmen kill 12 in Iraqi village
At least 12 people have been shot dead by gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms in a pre-dawn attack in a village south-west of Baghdad, officials say.
